sorry again but how can I install it? There are no .exe files 
There is still no official Windows distribution of the latest version of Litecoin, but one will be released soon.
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There is still no official Windows distribution of the latest version of Litecoin, but one will be released soon.
sorry again but how can I install it? There are no .exe files
I was able to encrypt my wallet using the latest git version.
sorry but how can I download it? If i click "Downloads" there are files for MAC or for the miners
edit: sorry I made it
I was able to encrypt my wallet using the latest git version.
sorry but. . . is possible to encrypt the wallet? The option is disabled yet.
Thanks. All I have to mine on is a Q6600, which according to the hardware sheet would generate somewhere around 21 KH/s. And according to this calculator (http://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=21&difficulty=1.87537559), about $2.44/month. Not worth it!
But thanks for the response.
But thanks for the response.
Not worth it today you mean. If litecoin was $100 per coin, you might feel different. Plan for the long run future, not selling cryptocoins short.
Mining at a loss makes no sense. Buy instead of mine at that point.
Yes you have the right idea. Some mine for the novelty of mining despite the loss.
Early bitcoin miners mined at a loss too. It was for the novelty and look at them now with their stashes of BTC
I can understand it from the novelty or hobby perspective, but from any other perspective, especially financial, it just doesn't make sense.
I remember you posting this back in early 2011 when I first found out about bitcoin. I had bought a mining rig in April because I wanted to hedge against the price falling with the possibility of selling off the hardware I bought. But then, as you correctly pointed out, I was still speculating that he price would rise, and thus it'd be better to just buy the coins directly since I'd get a lot more of them. It wasn't long after that that I wired a few thousand to MtGox, and that was probably the luckiest financial move I've ever made in terms of ROI.
I think there is more then the novelty here, mining really gets you involved in the community. If I weren't mining LTC I wouldn't be stalking the Chatroom at BTC-E or bitcointalk. I could have bought at Mt.Gox and been happy living my normal life.
But tweaking ones miner, sharing ideas, testing things, really brings you into direct-ish contact with other people who are like minded, and that's healthy for everyone in the community.
I suspect that long run, much like the original "gold rush" the real long term profit will be made elsewhere with companies and services that service the business. (Butterfly labs must be doing nicely for example). And in time when I learn how to code well and contribute in other ways, I will do so- in the meantime- the couple hundred coins per day are a nice sense of "Ownership".
Besides, when I tell more and more people about Crypto, it helps to show them that I'm "making them". It comes across as a much more serious 'hobby' then just speculation. :-)
I will be building in Litecoin support next week since the new version is coming nearer. Any merchants wanting to join me?
The new code will have all the recent Bitcoin fixes.
The code doesn't seem to have changed the switch on times for BIP 16 and BIP 30 in main.cpp. This can cause issues depending on whether the new client or the old client has majority computing power and whether it hits this code. You might want to change the dates to a future time such that it turns on when it's likely more people are running the new code. You can convert the date formats at a site like http://www.convert-unix-time.com. Or have you turned off the relevant code somewhere else? If so, disregard :-)Thanks. I will change those times to a future date.
Thanks. All I have to mine on is a Q6600, which according to the hardware sheet would generate somewhere around 21 KH/s. And according to this calculator (http://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=21&difficulty=1.87537559), about $2.44/month. Not worth it!
But thanks for the response.
But thanks for the response.
Not worth it today you mean. If litecoin was $100 per coin, you might feel different. Plan for the long run future, not selling cryptocoins short.
Mining at a loss makes no sense. Buy instead of mine at that point.
Yes you have the right idea. Some mine for the novelty of mining despite the loss.
Early bitcoin miners mined at a loss too. It was for the novelty and look at them now with their stashes of BTC
I can understand it from the novelty or hobby perspective, but from any other perspective, especially financial, it just doesn't make sense.
I remember you posting this back in early 2011 when I first found out about bitcoin. I had bought a mining rig in April because I wanted to hedge against the price falling with the possibility of selling off the hardware I bought. But then, as you correctly pointed out, I was still speculating that he price would rise, and thus it'd be better to just buy the coins directly since I'd get a lot more of them. It wasn't long after that that I wired a few thousand to MtGox, and that was probably the luckiest financial move I've ever made in terms of ROI.
The new code will have all the recent Bitcoin fixes.
The code doesn't seem to have changed the switch on times for BIP 16 and BIP 30 in main.cpp. This can cause issues depending on whether the new client or the old client has majority computing power and whether it hits this code. You might want to change the dates to a future time such that it turns on when it's likely more people are running the new code. You can convert the date formats at a site like http://www.convert-unix-time.com. Or have you turned off the relevant code somewhere else? If so, disregard :-) Announcement!
Now that we have a couple more Litecoin developers, I figure we should move away from hosting the source under my username. So I'm announcing a new location for the Litecoin project: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin
With the help from pooler and Fanquake, I rebranched from the latest bitcoin code and ported the Litecoin changes over. The new code will have all the recent Bitcoin fixes. Please help us test it out. If you are on Linux, just grab the source and build it yourself. We are currently working on creating a Windows binary. Stay tuned.
This means that the wiki has been moved to the new repo also: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki
litecoin.info will point to the new wiki location very soon.
Excellent! Good work guys!Now that we have a couple more Litecoin developers, I figure we should move away from hosting the source under my username. So I'm announcing a new location for the Litecoin project: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin
With the help from pooler and Fanquake, I rebranched from the latest bitcoin code and ported the Litecoin changes over. The new code will have all the recent Bitcoin fixes. Please help us test it out. If you are on Linux, just grab the source and build it yourself. We are currently working on creating a Windows binary. Stay tuned.
This means that the wiki has been moved to the new repo also: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki
litecoin.info will point to the new wiki location very soon.
Announcement!
Now that we have a couple more Litecoin developers, I figure we should move away from hosting the source under my username. So I'm announcing a new location for the Litecoin project: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin
With the help from pooler and Fanquake, I rebranched from the latest bitcoin code and ported the Litecoin changes over. The new code will have all the recent Bitcoin fixes. Please help us test it out. If you are on Linux, just grab the source and build it yourself. We are currently working on creating a Windows binary. Stay tuned.
This means that the wiki has been moved to the new repo also: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki
litecoin.info will point to the new wiki location very soon.
Now that we have a couple more Litecoin developers, I figure we should move away from hosting the source under my username. So I'm announcing a new location for the Litecoin project: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin
With the help from pooler and Fanquake, I rebranched from the latest bitcoin code and ported the Litecoin changes over. The new code will have all the recent Bitcoin fixes. Please help us test it out. If you are on Linux, just grab the source and build it yourself. We are currently working on creating a Windows binary. Stay tuned.
This means that the wiki has been moved to the new repo also: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki
litecoin.info will point to the new wiki location very soon.
But is possible to encrypt the wallet? The option is disabled yet.
Thanks. All I have to mine on is a Q6600, which according to the hardware sheet would generate somewhere around 21 KH/s. And according to this calculator (http://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=21&difficulty=1.87537559), about $2.44/month. Not worth it!
But thanks for the response.
But thanks for the response.
Not worth it today you mean. If litecoin was $100 per coin, you might feel different. Plan for the long run future, not selling cryptocoins short.
Mining at a loss makes no sense. Buy instead of mine at that point.
You are correct if your purchases of coins aren't large enough to change the price of LTC significantly. Otherwise, all the money you might have spent on mining might be large enough to dramatically alter the price of LTC and thus- quickly make it more expensive. So at the end it would be really tricky to calculate exactly how much better off you end up.
Does exist any binary (.deb?) version yet? I'm apparently to retarded to compile it myself. 
Meh - mining at a sizeable % loss is silly.
At the moment you can mine (on linux) on a single ATI 6950 for only a little below what you'd get BTC mining.
(yes I tried this last week and ran it for 12 hours and got 3 LTC blocks as was expected with ~400KH/s)
As for "chug along initially at low difficulty by not encouraging competition, the better?"
I'm not exactly sure what you are thinking there, but ... sounds to me like
"making LTC more popular is bad coz more people will use it ..." yeah OK forget that idea
At the moment you can mine (on linux) on a single ATI 6950 for only a little below what you'd get BTC mining.
(yes I tried this last week and ran it for 12 hours and got 3 LTC blocks as was expected with ~400KH/s)
As for "chug along initially at low difficulty by not encouraging competition, the better?"
I'm not exactly sure what you are thinking there, but ... sounds to me like
"making LTC more popular is bad coz more people will use it ..." yeah OK forget that idea
... and ... as I've mentioned in here before ... if you spent those $9 on buying LTC you would also be helping increase the price of LTC ...
Driving up the price in early days might not have always seemed a good idea though. As long as people thought coins were worthless, there was less mining competition. If people saw the coins actually being bought in quantity instead of merely mined in quantity, they might have realised duh these things might actually be worth something. So maybe at least early on it might be more in miners interest not to buy simple because buying might cause more people to get into mining.
Kind of seems like the longer you can chug along initially at low difficulty by not encouraging competition, the better?
I know for example that the people who have thrown some CPU power at GRouPcoin mining from time to time are quite happy that it has continued so long to slip under the radar, keeping its difficulty so low even CPUs can mine it effectively.
-MarkM-
Mining isn't just about immediate profit. It's also a contribution to the wellbeing of the network, and to the security of it's transactions. Everyone concerned about the future of his investments should be mining as well as buying.
... and ... as I've mentioned in here before ... if you spent those $9 on buying LTC you would also be helping increase the price of LTC ...
Thanks. All I have to mine on is a Q6600, which according to the hardware sheet would generate somewhere around 21 KH/s. And according to this calculator (http://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=21&difficulty=1.87537559), about $2.44/month. Not worth it!
But thanks for the response.
But thanks for the response.
Not worth it today you mean. If litecoin was $100 per coin, you might feel different. Plan for the long run future, not selling cryptocoins short.
Mining at a loss makes no sense. Buy instead of mine at that point.
Yes you have the right idea. Some mine for the novelty of mining despite the loss.
Early bitcoin miners mined at a loss too. It was for the novelty and look at them now with their stashes of BTC
I can understand it from the novelty or hobby perspective, but from any other perspective, especially financial, it just doesn't make sense.
And thats where we agree. Your perspective is financial and some others are just hobby/novelty.
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